Power Electronics Semiconductor Devices
Copyright © 2009 ISTE Ltd.

Editor(s): Robert Perret
Published Online: 2 FEB 2010
Print ISBN: 9781848210646
Online ISBN: 9780470611494
DOI: 10.1002/9780470611494
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This book relates the recent developments in several key electrical engineering R&D labs, concentrating on power electronics switches and their use. The first sections deal with key power electronics technologies, MOSFETs and IGBTs, including series and parallel associations. The next section examines silicon carbide and its potentiality for power electronics applications and its present limitations. Then, a dedicated section presents the capacitors, key passive components in power electronics, followed by a modeling method allowing the stray inductances computation, necessary for the precise simulation of switching waveforms. Thermal behavior associated with power switches follows, and the last part proposes some interesting prospectives associated to Power Electronics integration.
